Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Indian independence also brought partition, and it caused human suffering on a large scale. Quite a few movies were made on this subject. “Lahore” (1949), starring Karan Dewan and Nargis was one of the first such movies on this subject.
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Kabhi to miloge jeewan saathi
Posted on: August 11, 2010
I have posted several nice songs from “Sati Savitri” (1964) in this song. I was not aware that this movie had so many wonderful songs in it.
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Indian culture has some values which may sound strange to westerners.
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Here is another Lata-Madan Mohan song picturised on Nargis. This song is from an obscure movie called “Dhun” (1953). This time lyrics is written by Kaifi Irfani.
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Madan Mohan had composed music for just over 700 movie songs in his career. So far I have posted as many as 127 of these songs in this blog which constitutes 18 % of all Madan Mohan songs. I am sure that with time, I will be able to post many more Madan Mohan songs.
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Teri yaad naa dil se jaa saki
Posted on: August 8, 2010
“‘Chaand Aur Suraj” (1965) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Tanuja, not to be confused with “Suraj Aur Chandaa” (1973) which had Sanjeev Kumar and Meeta in lead roles.
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Chal diya dil mera tod ke
Posted on: August 8, 2010
There was a movie called “Fifty Fifty” (1956) which had actors like M.Rajan,Nalini Jaiwant,David,Om Prakash, Manmohan Krishna,Gope,Helen, Tuntun etc.
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“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) is a treasure of wonderful songs. I have already posted 5 songs from it.
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Sajnaa lagan teri sone naa de
Posted on: August 5, 2010
Recently, I posted two songs from “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1937). Two decades later, another movie of the same name was released in 1959. Here is a song from this movie, viz. “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1959).
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During the golden era of Hindi film music, movies, irrespective of their grading (A, B, C or whatever) tended to have A grade music. Not just the big name music directors, even lesser music directors were just as good as any. It is just that opportunities were few and far between and any many great talents were starved of opportunities.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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